This week in the Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Andrew Flynn, Artistic Director of Decadent Theatre

Andrew Flynn has been the Artistic Director of Decadent Theatre Company since 2000. In his role, Andrew orchestrates the arranging of our theatre show by curating and unifying various endeavours and aspects of production. His function as the Artistic Director is to ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realizing their artistic vision for it.

Educated in NUIG, Andrew began his theatre career in Druid Theatre. He learnt from the best during this time, being Assistant Director to Garry Hynes for three years. Andrew is also the Director of Theatre at Galway Arts Centre and a lecturer of theatre studies in NUIG. Andrew has a personal interest in classic and contemporary Irish theatre, preferring plays to be couched in the culture and accents of his native West of Ireland.

Andrew’s directing portfolio is rich and varied: Defender of the Faith, Midsummer, A Skull in Connemara, Cavalcaders, Eden, Port Authority, Doubt, Faith Healer, The Seafarer, Juno And The Paycock, Pumpgirl, Translations, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Belfast, Learning to Love Doreen Nolan, Desert Places, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, Translations, The Weir, Janets Table, Tejas Verdes, Talking to Terrorists.

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